Retetrigonia imbricata

No picture of Retetrigonia imbricata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retetrigonia imbricata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetetrigoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.3 Mya154.8 Mya168.7 Mya151.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Retetrigonia imbricata on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

4 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Kehailia — 30.68°N, 33.28°EKehailia — 30.68°N, 33.47°EMasajid — 30.68°N, 33.42°E

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The named rock units Retetrigonia imbricata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Retetrigonia imbricata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Retetrigonia imbricata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Retetrigonia imbricata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Retetrigonia imbricata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retetrigonia imbricata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retetrigonia imbricata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRetetrigonia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ayoub-Hannaa et al. 2023